PL25 house prices are built from 15,223 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +40.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.7%.
Median price paid
£158,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+40.5%
Change in real terms
+0.7%
Median per m²
£1,965
HM Land Registry15,223 sales3,204 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026
Section 01
How PL25 prices moved
The chart tracks the median PL25 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £52,750 | £117,130 |
| 2000s | 10 | £159,975 | £291,427 |
| 2010s | 10 | £174,000 | £245,340 |
| 2020s | 7 | £260,000 | £265,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for PL25 is £270,000 in 2024; the lowest is £46,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £46,000 to £260,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £102,142, so the real change over the whole record is +154.5% — about +3.06% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +40.5% in cash against +0.7% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 Larcombe Road | 26 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £186,500 | £186,500 |
| 37 Growan Road | 24 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £231,500 | £231,500 |
| 9 Trevear Close | 22 Jun 2026 | Detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 49 Bodmin Road | 15 Jun 2026 | Detached | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| 2 Acorn Drive | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 20 Sawles Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Detached | £312,000 | £312,000 |
| 1 WESLEY HALL Wesley Place | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £269,950 | £269,950 |
| 65 Tremayne Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 109 Trenarren View | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 4 Barkhouse Lane | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| 22 Wheal Regent Park | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £665,000 | £665,000 |
| 33 Polmarth Close | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 13 Lyons Road | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 17 Bay View Park | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £485,000 | £485,000 |
| 5 Boscoppa Road | 27 May 2026 | Detached | £297,000 | £297,000 |
| 3 ROSE COURT Bownder Vean | 27 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £135,000 |
| 44 Pondhu Road | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 6 Beacon Close | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 23 Trevear Close | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 102 Century Close | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £372,000 | £372,000 |
| 2 Tremena Gardens | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 92 Porthpean Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 9 Quillet Close | 15 May 2026 | Detached | £388,000 | £388,000 |
| 105 Century Close | 15 May 2026 | Detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 4 Bojea Terrace | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £242,000 | £242,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to PL25 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 Larcombe Road | £74,995 (2000) | £186,500 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
| 37 Growan Road | £172,000 (2015) | £231,500 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.4% |
| 9 Trevear Close | £77,500 (1997) | £330,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 49 Bodmin Road | £85,500 (1999) | £440,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 2 Acorn Drive | £83,000 (2002) | £250,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 20 Sawles Road | £69,000 (1996) | £312,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 1 WESLEY HALL Wesley Place | £180,000 (2019) | £269,950 (2026) | +6.0% | +2.0% |
| 109 Trenarren View | £92,500 (2003) | £145,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 65 Tremayne Road | £115,000 (2003) | £225,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| 4 Barkhouse Lane | £82,500 (1997) | £440,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 22 Wheal Regent Park | £340,000 (2002) | £665,000 (2026) | +2.8% | +0.1% |
| 33 Polmarth Close | £66,000 (1999) | £230,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. PL25 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 6,013 | 39.5% | £210,000 | £10,000 – £3,150,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4,175 | 27.4% | £150,000 | £14,750 – £750,000 |
| Terraced | 3,551 | 23.3% | £135,000 | £10,000 – £815,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,484 | 9.7% | £103,200 | £10,000 – £895,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in PL25
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,094 certificates cover PL25, and their median floor area is 77 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 77 m² | about 829 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 59 m² | about 635 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 98 m² | about 1,052 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 25.8% | 1,056 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 5.5% | 225 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in PL25
1,616 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13,607 freehold — 10.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £102,000 and the median freehold sale £165,000 — a gap of +61.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 1,616 | 10.6% | £102,000 |
| Freehold | 13,607 | 89.4% | £165,000 |
| New build | 2,454 | 16.1% | £165,000 |
| Existing home | 12,769 | 83.9% | £156,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +5.8%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 756 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in PL25
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cornwall, 37.4% of 321,040 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 14.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 3,287 | 1.0% |
| B | 36,937 | 11.5% |
| C | 79,827 | 24.9% |
| D | 92,894 | 28.9% |
| E | 62,653 | 19.5% |
| F | 32,170 | 10.0% |
| G | 13,272 | 4.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cornwall at £1,005 a month as of Jun 2026 — £692 for a one-bedroom home and £1,082 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £158,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.63% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of PL25, 199 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 78 violent, 8 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 570,305 residents the 2021 census counted in Cornwall, that is 0.35 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around PL25
The 2021 census counted 570,305 residents in Cornwall across 250,533 households. 67.4% of those households own their home and 32.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a PL25 postcode: 6 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrice Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,405 |
| Poltair School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 882 |
| Sandy Hill Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 455 |
| Carclaze Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 377 |
| Charlestown Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 372 |
| Mount Charles School | Primary | Academy converter | 333 |
| Bishop Bronescombe CofE School | Primary | Academy converter | 267 |
| Pondhu Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 187 |
| Cornwall College | 16 plus | Further education | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| St Austell Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Par Rail Station | Rail | 5.6 km |
| Luxulyan Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
| Bugle Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
Section 09
How PL25 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. PL25 sits above that national figure — +0.3%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,965 per square metre, across 3,204 of the 15,223 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £10,000 to £3,150,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
PL25 sits in Cornwall, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cornwall at 8.6 times median local earnings of £33,889 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside PL25
The closest districts
- PL263.3 km · £147,500
- TR819.7 km · £218,000
- TR121.4 km · £190,000
- TR722.4 km · £175,000
- PL1426.1 km · £145,000
- TR1130.5 km · £205,000
- TR1534.7 km · £135,000
- PL1238.6 km · £155,000
This district mostly covers St Austell.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in PL25?
The median price paid in PL25 across every sale on the register is £158,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in PL25?
15,223 sales are on record for PL25, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have PL25 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +40.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were PL25 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £270,000, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in PL25?
£1,965 per square metre, from the 3,204 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “PL25 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.